A Maven plugin that sorts the pom.xml file.
'com.google.code.sortpom:maven-sortpom-plugin:1.2.1'
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.code.sortpom</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-sortpom-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency org="com.google.code.sortpom" name="maven-sortpom-plugin" rev="1.2.1"/>
"com.google.code.sortpom", "maven-sortpom-plugin", "1.2.1"